Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

I’m back into visiting Busch Gardens Tampa, home of my favorite roller coaster, Montu. However, they have a new coaster that, while not quite as good as Montu, is still quite the thrilling ride.

So I broke down and spent money on the iPad 2. After a very long wait, it finally arrived this past Thursday. Here’s what I think so far. Be warned: this post starts out quite negative about the device … but ends on the good notes.

My new place of employment provides some employees with cell phones. Currently, that phone is a Droid2. Here’s what I have to say about my experiences with mine.

I now am the master of backups at my new place of employment. I’ve been learning a bit about Backup Exec, and ran into an interesting issue. In the hopes of preventing others from taking the three or four days it took me to track the issue down, I relate the experience here.

A quickie post explaining how to get the calendar from your second GMail account onto your Android device. Also: Calendar colors, and holidays!

My university/soon to be former employer has their student (or former student) email run by Google. When attempting to add my GMail account as a second account on my Samsung Epic, I would get this error. Read on for my solution and pointers …

I got it for the ability to customize SMS tones per contact. I kept it for the additional features …

The first in what might be a series of posts on apps I personally rate very highly and think most users would find incredibly useful, I write up what I know and like about AppBrain. (And I actually make it through a post without referencing the phone I use it on!)

I’m seeing a lot of questions on the Samsung Epic 4G forums that I participate in regarding changing SMS tones or replacing the default SMS application. Here’s a collection of how-to’s regarding the topic.

A couple of little snippets of advice about extending the battery life of your Samsung Epic.